A photograph of a tall, ornately carved stone temple gopuram with tiered sculpted levels and rearing figures at its summit, beside a carved stone temple wall with pillars and niches. In the foreground, an elderly man in white shirt and white dhoti with a rudraksha mala stands near a woman in an orange sari who gestures toward the structure. Other men in white clothes stand at the right edge. - Nithyanandapedia

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A photograph of a tall, ornately carved stone temple gopuram with tiered sculpted levels and rearing figures at its summit, beside a carved stone temple wall with pillars and niches. In the foreground, an elderly man in white shirt and white dhoti with a rudraksha mala stands near a woman in an orange sari who gestures toward the structure. Other men in white clothes stand at the right edge.

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